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dc.contributor.authorLawson, Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-28T10:30:11Z
dc.date.available2019-01-28T10:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-10
dc.identifier256980069
dc.identifier583b8955-4d41-4748-9332-3fb3690d228a
dc.identifier85016214540
dc.identifier.citationLawson , S 2017 , ' Access, ethics and piracy ' , Insights: the UKSG Journal , vol. 30 , no. 1 , pp. 25-30 . https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.333en
dc.identifier.issn2048-7754
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1972-8953/work/53214577
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/16938
dc.description.abstractOwnership of intellectual property rights for a large proportion of the scholarly record is held by publishers, so a majority of journal articles are behind paywalls and unavailable to most people. As a result some readers are encouraged to use pirate websites such as Sci-Hub to access them, a practice that is alternately regarded as criminal and unethical or as a justified act of civil disobedience. This article considers both the efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge. By doing so, it is shown that piracy is an inevitable part of the intellectual landscape that can render the current intellectual property regime irrelevant. If we wish to actively construct a true scholarly commons, open access emerges as a contender for moving beyond proprietary forms of commodifying scholarly knowledge towards the creation of an open scholarly communication system that is fit for purpose.
dc.format.extent187781
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInsights: the UKSG Journalen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.titleAccess, ethics and piracyen
dc.typeJournal itemen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. University of St Andrewsen
dc.identifier.doi10.1629/uksg.333
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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